Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 78, 1958-1959, Subscription
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(tf*\ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDED IN 1881 BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON f r**» ¥i A 'ill! Jfllil'i m yi &— H SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON 1958-1959 Sunday Afternoon Series BAYARD TUCKERMAN, JR. ARTHUR J. ANDERSON ROBERT T. FORREST JULIUS F. HALLER ARTHUR J. ANDERSON. JR. HERBERT S. TUCKERMAN J. DEANE SOMERVILLE A Signal for a Safe Landing Lack of proper guidance may mean a difference between a safe or a crash landing. Lack of insur- ance coverage may mean the difference between solvency or bankruptcy. Insurance counsel from this Agency gives proper guidance to financial safety when losses occur. A signal from you and we are at your service! CHARLES H. WATKBVS & CO. RICHARD P. NYQUIST in association with OBRION, RUSSELL & CO. Insurance of Every Description 108 Water Street Boston 6, Mass. LAfajetto 3-5700 SEVENTY-EIGHTH SEASON, 1958-1959 Boston Symphony Orchestra CHARLES MUNCH, Music Director Richard Burgin, Associate Conductor CONCERT BULLETIN with historical and descriptive notes by John N. 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At four he showed (possibilities of becoming a piano prodigy, but was taken to Vienna to study with Richard Robert. At the age of twelve, he made his debut as soloist under the j auspices of the Gesellschaft der Musik- I three years, the I freunde. For from age j of fourteen, he studied composition with Arnold Schonberg. He then began his [ I active career as a concert pianist, giving »,solo recitals throughout Europe, and likewise touring with Adolf Busch in f! ' Sonatas for Violin and Piano. It was | with Adolf Busch (his destined father- | in-law) that he made his first appear- ance in America in 1935 at the Coolidge Festival in Washington, D.C. He played Brahms' Concerto No. 1 in D minor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, December 30, 1938; Beethoven's Con- certo No. 4 in G major, December 22, 1939; Beethoven's Concerto No. 5, in E-flat major, April 6, 1944; Brahms' Concerto No. 1, January 20, 1956. Mr. Serkin now lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music. Spring. C*vent His summer Music School and Festival A teagown to make this Spring an at Marlboro, Vermont, is his dearest eventful one ... of light-weight project. silk with an intriguing print of large • • cabbage roses. Paris Pink or Tur- BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL quoise Roses Sizes 10-20. $39.95 PROGRAMS 416 Boylston St. 54 Central St. The Berkshire Festival for 1959 at Boston 16, Mass. Wellesley, Mass. Tanglewood will open on July 1 with KEnmore 6-6238 CEdar 5-3430 the first of six Wednesday evening [S] chamber music concerts by artists to bt announced. The programs for the firs two weeks of concerts by a chamber orchestra of Boston Symphony players and the remaining four weeks of con- certs by the full Orchestra in the Shed are as follows (Friday and Saturday Evenings at 8:30, Sunday Afternoons at 2 :30) : FIRST WEEK Fri. Eve., July 3—Theatre Bach : Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 We love the gay Frenchmen . Suite No. 2; Musical Offering adore the romantic Italians . Cantata No. 50 {"Nun ist das Hell") admire our British cousins ... but Conductor: Charles munch when it comes to fashion, no one interprets American women as wisely Sat. Eve., July 4—Shed as American designers. And this Bach : Concertos for 1, 2, 3 and 4 Pianos spring's fashions prove it. Conductor: charles munch Who else could design, or wear with Sun. Aft., July 5—Theatre such aplomb, this spring's cape-deep Bach : Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 collar . the fly-away jacket . Cantata No. 51 {"Jauchzet Gott") the coat with the roundly cupped {Soprano: bethany beardslee) convex back? Violin and Oboe Concerto, D minor (RUTH POSSELT - RALPH GOMBERG) Willowy waistlines are back . Suite No. 3 clutched with wide kid belts, wrapped Conductor: CHARLES MUNCH with ascot ties, or drawstring cinched, or belittled with short story jackets. SECOND WEEK Like stereo, checks have a converging impact this spring . woven checks, Fri. Eve., July 10—Theatre houndstooth checks, lacey checks . Mozart: "Don Giovanni" Overture in sharp contrast to flower garden Piano Concerto, K. 453 prints in palpitating sun and shadow (NICOLE HENRIOT-SCHWEITZER) ' tones. And if you're the woman who Divertimento, K. 287 wears beige well, really wears it, by "Haffner" Symphony, K. 385 all means capitalize on the season's Conductor: charles munch color sweep of pure beige. Sat. Eve., July 11 —Shed American fashions in all their scope Mozart: Symphonies No. 39 in E-flat of color, fabric and line have come No. 40 in G minor of age. Come see them at No. 41 ("Jupiter") Conductor: charles munch Sun. Aft., July 12—Theatre Mozart: "Prague" Symphony Requiem, K. 626 (ADDISON, KOPLEFF, STERN, GRAMM, FESTIVAL CHORUS) twenty newbury Conductor: charles munch (Continued on page 31) [4] fI«««. 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Allegro non troppo II. Allegro appassionato III. Andante IV. Allegretto grazioso SOLOIST RUDOLF SERKIN Mr. Serkin uses the Steinway Piano BALDWIN PIANO *RCA VICTOR RECORDS [7] for a self-assured suit . BOSTON • CHESTNUT HILL [8] '' iri **s. "PELLEAS AND M£LISANDE," Orchestral Suite, Op. 80, TAKEN FROM THE STAGE MUSIC TO MAETERLINCK'S PLAY By Gabriel Faure Born in Pamiers (Ariege), France, May 12, 1845; died in Passy, November 4, 1924 Composed in 1898, Faure's incidental music to Maeterlinck's play was first heard in the production given in London, June 21, 1898, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell. There was a performance at the Boston Theatre in Boston, also by Mrs. Campbell's company, April 12, 1902. The suite drawn from the music was first performed at a Lamoureux concert in Paris, February 3, 1901. It was introduced in Boston at a concert of the New England Conservatory Orchestra, March 8, 1904. There was a performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, December 17, 1904, and again December 2, 1905. Vincent d'Indy, as guest, conducted it March 18, 1911, Pierre Monteux, November 23, 1923, Serge Koussevitzky, April 21, 1939, December 29, 1939, April 20, 1945 (two movements); November 23, 1945 (Paul Paray, conducting).